Amelia Earhart
became the first woman to across t...

18 June 1928

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Amelia Earhart
became the first woman to across the Atlantic on June 18-19, 1928. While the flight garnered her a lot of publicity, she was little more than a passenger in the Fokker tri-motor "Friendship." In 1932, five years to the day after Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, she duplicated the feat - the first woman, and only the second person to do so at that time. In 1937, while attempting an around the world flight with navigator Fred Noonan, she disappeared over the Pacific